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Its worth noting that US funding from the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity paid for Peking University's initial development
值得關注的是庚子賠款的美國方面撥款，資助了北京大學最初的發展
and many of its faculty had studied in American Universities with Boxer Indemnity scholarships.
很多教職員工求學于美國大學用的是庚子賠款的獎學金
When it moved to its present site in 1953, it took over the campus of Yenqing University,
北京大學搬到現址是在1953年，它占用了燕京大學的校園
designed by American architect, Henry Killam Murphy in the 1930s.
設計者是美國建筑師亨利·吉拉姆·墨菲那是在30年代
Actually it's an attractive building but totally useless,
那其實是一幢非常不錯的建筑，但毫無用處
its concrete walls are so thick no one can pick up cell phone transmissions and it doesn't have computer wiring.
它的水泥墻體太厚了，沒有人手機能接收到信號而且電腦也無法接入網絡
Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army entered Beijing in 1949.
毛澤東領導的中國人民解放軍進入北京城是在1949年
Even though Maoism was a rural, even anti-urban version of Marxism,
盡管毛澤東思想是一個農村的、甚至是反城市的版本的馬克思主義
Mao knew where China's capitol belonged, but what to do with it?
毛澤東知道哪里應該是中國的首都，但具體應該怎么做呢
Mao hated everything the Forbidden City stood for.
毛澤東痛恨紫禁城代表的一切
Yet he was not one to eschew luxury,
但他不是抵制奢侈的人
so he and party apparatchiks moved into the Imperial Lake Palaces while they garnered proposals to remake Beijing.
所以他和其他共產黨官員搬進了中南海，在那里他們積累重塑北京的提案
Liang Sicheng an American educated architect,
梁思成是一個在美國接受教育的建筑師
who helped to plan the UN headquarters and designed the Chinese national emblem,
他幫助設計了聯合國總部大樓，還設計了中國國徽
wanted to build a new administrative center out to the west and retain much of the old city.
他想要建造一個新的行政中心，在城市的西邊，同時保留大部分的老城區
Liang proposed turning the city walls into green parks, from where strolling Beijingers could enjoy views of their rich cultural heritage.
梁思成提議把城墻改造成綠地公園，在那里散步的北京人能欣賞到他們燦爛文化遺產的景觀
